Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Problem Posing method

One of the many problems that I think are wrong this chapter on behalf of the fast food industry would be child labor. Elisa is a victim of this abuse and can only be described as abuse. Elisa Zamot works at a McDonald's that is located about 1/2 mile from her house. Every weekend the teenager wakes up at 5:15 am and heads to the shower, being completely done with her hair by 5:30. At times her mom drives her to work but other times she normally walks there. Once Elisa arrives at her job the door is opened by her manager, where she then steps in and starts to clean the store with her manager. After her long 7 hour shift Elisa heads home at around 7 o'clock tired and exhausted. A great quote that describes this problem can be found in pg. 68 half-way through the page the reader comes across two sentences that say "About two-thirds of the nation's fast food workers are under the age of twenty. Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going all hours in between.", this quote represents the problem because it clearly mentions that teenagers are basically the ones who run fast food stores. I have had countless amounts of instances where I would walk into a fast food restaurant and get ready to order when I see the cashier's face it's actually a teenager about the same age as me. Many solutions have been tried to stop this exploitation of teenagers but these fast food chains always seem to get around it by seducing their employees with other tactics, one example being that instead of being paid money they are sometimes paid in food. A solution that, in my opinion, would put an end to this subject would be to make sure that all of the laws put forth are being exherted and applied by all of these food chains.

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